Administrative Core

Center Leadership

The administrative core provides center leadership, sets the center research agenda, and maintains an environment that promotes quality research on normal aging and diseases of the brain. The Alzheimer's Disease Research Center (ADRC) is administratively a part of the UK Sanders-Brown Center on Aging (SBCoA) and is housed in the Sanders-Brown Building. This core promotes the integration of center cores, pilot projects, and educational programs of the ADRC. The core is managed by an executive committee composed of core leaders who meet monthly to assist the core director, Linda Van Eldik, PhD, with center management and decision making.

An external advisory committee of nationally recognized experts meets yearly to evaluate research progress and a local advisory committee, chaired by the dean of the College of Medicine, provides an annual administrative review. The director of the administrative core serves as the primary liaison with the Center on Aging Foundation, whose major focus is to raise funds for Alzheimer's disease programs.

Goals of the Core

UK-ADRC Developmental Project Program

The UK-ADRC Developmental Project Program is a pilot program supported by our NIH Alzheimer’s Disease Research Center (UK-ADRC) grant P30 AG072946. The program is aimed at junior investigators (postdoctoral fellows, assistant professors, senior research associates, or clinical fellows) and will provide pilot grant support for research in Alzheimer’s disease (AD) and related dementias. Awards are intended to provide seed funding for novel hypotheses that lead to national-level funding of an expanded research plan based on the pilot work. 

Eligibility: 

The program is open to all faculty with appointments at UK, as well as senior research associates, clinical fellows, or postdoctoral investigators. Postdoctoral or junior investigators are encouraged to apply. More senior investigators from other fields who wish to apply their expertise to ADRD research or explore new ideas that is not an extension of ongoing ADRD research are also eligible. 

Proposals with a focus on basic/ clinical/ translational research relevant to AD and related dementias are strongly encouraged and of particular interest. Areas of special interest include studies on risk factors, prevention, preclinical AD, therapeutics, caregiving, minority populations, health disparities, cognitive processes, and neuroimaging. 

Applications are not currently being accepted at this time.  Please contact Linda Van Eldik (linda.vaneldik@uky.edu) or Daniel C. Lee (dan.lee@uky.edu) with any questions.